@drongch: I'm a bit surprised to hear that a "good vet" would withhold information about treatment options from someone who does not have insurance. Will they also ask me if I'm independently wealthy or have a rich uncle? :-) Like I said, I'm not a pet owner, but if a pet can be cured for $2000 it's hard for me to…

I think the author makes good points, but she doesn't acknowledge the (imho) most important one. The reason we can "self-insure" cats and dogs is because there's a certain dollar value at which you'd be willing to say goodbye to the pet. If you're the type of person who would pay whatever the cost to save your pet,…

This looks fantastic! I do have a stack of such CDs. While I'd love to put them on a thumb drive, I've had hit or miss luck with booting from a thumb drive. But being able to combined DBAN, UBCD, Avira and a few others on one disk would be excellent.

While this is a very clever and creative approach, I still constantly marvel at why people find iTunes worth the trouble.

The Amazon link should be this:

@comodidit: Apologies for duplicating my answer here, but since this is very similar to the comment I responded to above, I'll copy/paste:

@Platypus Man: I think the issue is that before the breach people had an expectation of anonymity in their Gawker comments. So they might have written things here expecting that they'd only ever be connected to Platypus Man. But with the (very wide!) release of the data file the Gawker user names are now linked to…

still holding out for my Babel Fish:

@1parrotgirl: Ahh, interesting post. Thanks!

It was referenced below in terms of the instructable, but even if you're not handy it seems there are lots of places in the kitchen to hide something in food. You don't need to solder open a can — buy a box of cereal that you don't eat and store whatever valuables you want in a ziploc bag in the bottom (i.e. under…

@1parrotgirl: I didn't read the article you're referencing, but intuitively I would imagine that the harder you make it to find valuables, the less likely they'll be taken.

@GeicoCaveman: LOL Christopher Walken is a comedic genius. I love this scene.

For the traveler at least, another option is always setting up your own proxy server at home and routing through that. It's been covered elsewhere on Gizmodo, but some combination of Hamachi and Proxy software has been working well for me for years.

hmmmm......

@drongch: I really have no idea what your reply here means. I'm assuming you're calling me a hypocrite because you think I'm correcting your grammar in public, but I'm not. I *am* disputing your correction and (more to the point) your perceived need to make it. I also didn't suggest you were malicious, I merely…

@drongch: I never understood why people would correct insignificant grammar errors by strangers in public — whether in person or online.

@jupiterthunder: brettofamerica wasn't contrasting easy with "hard". The contrast was easy vs tesdious. And I'd second the point that no matter what one's skill level, cutting out individual letters, especially for a lot of people not named "Al" or "Ed" would, indeed, be tedious.

@timgray: On an overnight drive once I stopped at a late-night Starbucks and ordered what amounted to ~8 shots of espresso and a little hot water (I think it was a Venti Americano with 4 extra shots or something.

@Princess Leela: I'd forgotten about that whole incident. Not least because the guy's business folded — perhaps due to all the threatened junk punching . . . :-)

@Commander Waffles: Fair enough, and thanks for not being offended by the question.